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Hi! I’m a voice and songwriting coach with over 10 years of experience helping singers and songwriters build strong foundations and develop their unique artistic voices. I hold a degree in Musical Theatre with a Voice Concentration from Shenandoah University, and I specialize in voice training, songwriting, and music theory.

I found weaving in 1991 and was obsessed in that first encounter. It took a while to find my way through commercial weaving, product weaving, finally coming back to where it all started – art weaving. In my previous professional life I was a musician and oboe teacher so it was natural to gravitate to teaching weaving – that special moment when someone lights up with understanding…

Since first encountering The Penland Book of Handmade Books at the public library in 2006, I have been passionate about making books and have been learning and practicing the crafts involved in making books – binding, making paper, marbling paper, creating book cloth, and woodworking.

Melanie has been enamored with all things fiber since her grandmother taught her to knit and crochet when she was five or six years old. She has spent a lifetime delving deeply into every fiber art you can imagine. She has even travelled to Peru and Bolivia to study knitting and to Mexico and Guatemala to study Mayan backstrap weaving and embroidery.

An adept disciple of Pt Tejendra Narayan Majumdar for the past six years, I have immersed myself in the rich tradition of Indian classical music, specifically focusing on the sarod. My musical journey began a decade ago with vocal training, and over the years, I have expanded my expertise by undergoing rigorous tabla training under the guidance of maestro Soumen Nandi.

Esther Rodgers is a full- time fiber artist from Mebane, NC. She is known for her creative art yarns and her unique fiber preparation, while constantly innovating her spinning techniques to create new textures. She is on the cutting edge in terms of yarn design. She loves to design and spin concept yarns from an inspiration and tell stories with her yarns.

Christine Seelye-King started to cook when she was 8, or 6 if you count her Easy Bake Oven. Her father owned a restaurant when her folks were first married and she grew up with him watching Julia Child and experimenting with cuisines such as French, Chinese, Japanese, German and party foods of all types.

Alasdair Post-Quinn, author of “Extreme Double-knitting,” “Double or Nothing,” and a handful of standalone patterns, has been working to push the boundaries of double-knitting since 2003. He lives in Cambridge, MA; aside from his self-published books and patterns, he frequently teaches live and virtual workshops for all levels of double-knitting experience.

Julie has been raising fiber animals since her teens, first on her family farm and now at her own ranch. Building on her love for teaching and design, her college studies focused on secondary education and costume design. After school , raising fiber animals naturally led to spinning and weaving and then into instructing across the country.

Hello! I'm Joaco Bustillo, I'm a professional songwriter, music producer, and music educator. Born in Bolivia and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina Graduated as Bachelor's in Contemporary Music from CAEMSA's Music School associated with Berklee´s College of Music in Buenos Aires and a postgraduate certification in Technological Higher Education to excel as an online music teacher.